Saso Sinadinovski’s solo exhibition at In Toto Gallery, Studies, expands on the artist’s extensive conceptual journey through the universal human condition. Sinadinovski achieves near photographic likeness in his oil, acrylic and airbrush paintings which contrasts sharply with the highly expressive brushstrokes that find their way into almost every artwork.

Born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1979, Sinadinovski and his family relocated, as refugees from communist rule, to South Africa in 1985. The artist holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Elam School of Fine Art at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and also studied art at the Johannesburg Art Foundation with Bill Ainslie.

Paint has the unique ability to condense and illuminate a lifetime of events. With this exhibition’s focus on the human figure itself, rather than the characters or personalities of the subjects, the viewer is freed from interpretation and analysis and left to enjoy the form, colour and texture of the artworks. The lucid detail realised in these figurative paintings leads one to believe that you could almost talk to these illusions in oil.